Be it a deadbeat parent with more than enough funds to help their children or spouses making use of their significant other’s dependency on them, economic abuse pervades life and remains a blindspot.
Yep. Had a friend on the bus come over for dinner because her mom and mom’s bf had a fight. The bf was withholding money for groceries so she couldn’t feed her kids, so she would give in to whatever it was she wouldn’t do. We were 12 and she had a younger brother who was 9. The 9 year old was the bf’s kid, my friend wasn’t.
Yep. Had a friend on the bus come over for dinner because her mom and mom’s bf had a fight. The bf was withholding money for groceries so she couldn’t feed her kids, so she would give in to whatever it was she wouldn’t do. We were 12 and she had a younger brother who was 9. The 9 year old was the bf’s kid, my friend wasn’t.